It’s important to keep your email updated on Facebook for several reasons, whether it’s so you can reset your password or take action if your account is breached.
But with so many people having a Facebook for at least a decade, it’s very easy to lose track of which email you have logged onto your Facebook account.
Fortunately, Facebook allows you to easily update your email, and we’ve created this guide to show you the exact steps you need to take to do so. Check out the full guide below.
What you’ll need:
- A Facebook account
- An email address
The Short Version
- Go to your Facebook settings
- Click See More In Accounts Centre
- Go to the Personal Details tab
- Click Contact Info
- Select Add New Contact and choose Add Email Address
- Verify your new email address
- Delete your old address if you’d like to
Step
1Open Facebook
We’ll be using screenshots from the web browser version of Facebook in this guide.
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2Click your profile icon
This will be in the top-right corner of the screen.
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3Click Settings & Privacy
Or hit the gear icon.
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4Choose Settings
This will be the gear icon again.
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5Click See More In Accounts Centre
The Accounts Centre is the new destination for updating your account information across Facebook and Instagram.
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6Choose Personal Details
This will take you to the tab with your login information.
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7Click Contact Info
You should see the current email address associated with your account listed here.
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8Select Add New Contact
You should see a dropdown menu.
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9Click Add Email Address
You can also add a new mobile number from here.
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10Enter your new email address
Then click Next.
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11Enter the confirmation code and click Next
You can find the code in your email inbox.
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12Click Contact Info
The next few steps will take you through the process of deleting your old email address if that’s something you’d like to do. You can stop at step 11, however.
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13Select the email address you want to delete
You can also choose to keep both addresses attached to your account.
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14Hit Delete Email Address
You may be asked to re-enter your password in order to delete the old address.
FAQs
Once you delete your old email address from Facebook, you’ll no longer be able to use it to sign in to your account. You also won’t be able to reset your password or receive notifications using that email address.
Yes, you can use the same email address across both Meta-owned apps. You can also use the Accounts Centre to update your Instagram information.
Yes, you don’t need to create a new account when switching your email address. Just follow the steps above.
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Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
Professional conduct
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.
